Renewal By Andersen SPAM Email with subject Get Your Spring Windows Offer: BOGO 40% off* (min. 4)

For the record, this is a Renewal By Andersen spam email attempt that is recently going around, with subject "Get Your Spring Windows Offer: BOGO 40% off* (min. 4)"

What to do?  Report them, go to bottom of page. 

From: Renewal By Andersen<alert@televisionative.com> Subject: Get Your Spring Windows Offer: BOGO 40% off* (min. 4)

Spam Link

1. https://televisionative.com/c/xxxx

How to tell this is a Phishing email?

1. Check email address in full, if it's not from originating company then it's phishing.
2. Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the company's website then forget it.
3. The best way is to look at message source, see below.

How to examine Email Message Source?

Now let's look at message source

1. Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source. 
2. Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.

Check for suspicious links, anything that does not originate from source domain, like apple.com.

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Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)

1. Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
2. Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing 

Report Phishing to Google

If you have received this email, take further action by

1. https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

Report phishing at Microsoft and government agencies

1. http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-faq.aspx

Report phishing for Web hosting companies (e.g., GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean) and ISPs

1. SpamCop.net - Sign up for SpamCop reporting

Anti‑Phishing Working Group (APWG) — forward to reportphishing@apwg.org

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Win Explorer Advanced File Search Filter Builder

Select filters; ext, content, author, title, image metadata, path, date, size, file types

Basic Rules

Operator	Example	Result
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OR	social OR security	Finds items that contain social or security.
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📎 File Extension & Content

🔍 File extension (ext:)

Manual: ext:jpg OR ext:png | Tags add cumulatively

png jpg pdf docx xlsx txt mp4 zip

Click tags to add OR combine

📄 Content search (content:"phrase")

Enable content search (auto-enabled when you type)

The proper way to search inside file contents for the exact phrase!

✍️ Author & Title Metadata

👤 Author (author:"name")

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For multiple authors, author:"Name 1" OR author:"Name 2", edit manually

📌 Title (title:"document name")

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For multiple titles, title:"Name 1" OR title:"Name 2", edit manually

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